LineageOS does not ship with Google apps (“gapps”), which are unfortunately required for some usages (localization, push notifications, Maps API) and by few apps which depend directly on it (which is actually a bad practice). Although LineageOS provides a procedure to install gapps, they DO NOT support it.

LineageOS of microG provides LineageOS images for your phone, directly shipping with microG, which is an implementation of gapps. shipping

This short tutorial gives some details about the upgrade procedure,...

Recently, I have been looking for a way to measure the typical energy consumption of the electric equipments I have at home. I only wanted to buy a simple plug-in energy monitor but I ended up spending several days to understand what were the possible options (and about 6 more hours to write this article…) !

Here is what I’ve learned.

The watt-meter buying guide

What you need to measure electric power consumption is called a watt-meter. Depending on...

Do you want your tribe to share the same cool email addresses suffix like @smith.org, @smith.family, @thesmithes.club… ?

You have several choices :

Proton Mail and Mailfence are two famous email service providers known for their privacy-friendly policies.

You will find many articles comparing them as well as other similar providers, but most of them are just theoretical, so I decided to give them a real world test run.

My use case was to exchange emails with normal people (i.e. without requiring them all to have state-of-the-art encrypted mailboxes).

After reading enough of both providers documentation,...